We're All in Deep Scheisse

If the Republicans regain control of the Senate and/or the House in next year's mid-terms or Trump reclaims the White House in 2024, the world is in deep scheisse.

A Washington Post/ABC news poll finds that Americans' concerns about climate change have stalled over the past few years and the climate emergency has become mired in hyperpartisan politics. More Dems are alive to the issue but, on the Republican side, concern has tanked.

A clear majority of adults say that warming is a serious problem, but the share — 67 percent — is about the same as it was seven years ago, when alarms raised by climate scientists were less pronounced than they are now.

The poll, released Friday, also finds that the partisan divide over the issue has widened. The percentage of Democrats who see climate change as an existential threat rose by 11 points to 95 percent over seven years. The increase was driven partly by Black Americans who are now more likely to say the issue is very serious.

Meanwhile, the share of Republicans who say climate change is a serious problem fell by 10 points, to 39 percent, over the same period. The Republican decline in Post-ABC polls tracks with the findings of annual Gallup polls in which Republican concerns dropped after 2017, when Donald Trump took office as president.

Since Trump, more Republicans have reverted to the "climate always changes, nothing to see here" mentality. It's amazing. Those Red State, redneck peckerheads stand right on the climate change firing line. They'll be hit first and hardest.  The affluent among them are already starting to migrate northward. That should make it easier to score a seat in the bleachers at the mud races.


If the Republicans do reclaim Congress next year or if Trump returns to the White House in 2024 that could put an end to the global consensus, what remains of it, to fight climate change and then, friends, we will be in deep scheisse.

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